Truman Burbank was created through television show producer Christoph. His life was created by s series if events that were all planned and predetermined by the same man. While he was able to control his reactions and responses to this events, most of what happened in his life was out of his hands.
In 1984, Winston Smith was born into a "regular" society (regular meaning it was not created by a television producer), and yet he shared the same issue of privacy as Truman. While Winston was able to enjoy the luxury, so to speak, of having serendipitous and random events occur through the course of life, he had the opposite situation as Truman in that he could not freely express his reactions.
While both of their lives were intently watched 24/7, Truman had no knowledge of it and therefore had genuine, public reactions to whatever was thrown at him. Winston had to be careful of every little thing he did, as if he were to act the wrong way his life would be in grave danger.
Both of these characters were deprived of ther basic human instincts along with the rest of their societies and all that goes along with them.
How do you think Winston would have acted if he didn't know that he was always being watched? He would have similar suspicions to Truman in the way that sometimes something would be fishy and seem like there was outside interference. Do you think that he would act differently?
ReplyDeleteI like the comparison you use between the two worlds. Both are restricting but in different ways.
ReplyDeleteI liked this post! I agree that both of the characters were controlled in some way.
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